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Editor Labor Enquirer.
] enclose to you some verses
which if you think it advisable
you will please publish. It may
be true that they are somewhat
out of place just now, but my
opinion is and always has been
that our present position is due
solely to the towards and traitors
among US. l think if those of US
who mean to save the republic
would shake loose from the priest
ridden crew who control us and
strike 6low for 6losU we should
sooner awake the sleeping con-
science of the nation than we
shall by any plan of Rome-ruled
Powderly or men of his ilk, Pow
derly's idea, by the way, is that OF
Lincoln's philanthropic neighbor
who cut his dogs tail off joint B,
joint for fear of hurting the ami
NAL too much by taking it off at
once. There is nothing conserva-
tive in Truth, and therefore logi-
cally conservative is either a
fraud or liar or both. Our gov
ernment, both nation and state, is
conservative and therefore fraud
ulent, and as there can be no valid
reason adduced for the existence
of fraud it becomes the highest
duty of every lover of freedom to
change this government by every
means in his power. Neither am
! stickler for what is called le-
gal means. An oppressive law
cannot be abolished by obeying
it; it must be violatedpersistently
and to such an extent as to make
it worthless in the estimation of
the class or classes in whose favor
it operates and then it will fall to
the ground.
Take for instance the law in
many states contravening the con-
stitutional right to bear arms,
conveying of course an adjoining
right to a knowledge of their use.
The states law forbids the pos
session of arms and a knowledge
of the manual attendant. Now
let the new assemblies of labor to
be formed boldly assert their con-
stitutional rights and act. Should
they be assailed by state author
ity let an appeal be made to the
government at Washington. Fail
ing here there would be but one
resort and that l would take-it
took the lives of nearly million
of men to get an amendment to
the constitution in favor of liberty
Il take it that an amendment in
favor of slaves will not be bought
for less.
In all this there is no necessity
for violence on our part, at least
not at first. We set out as viola
tors of unjust and unconstitutional
laws. l would avoid secrecy; there
is no safety in it and there is a
species of weakness. A simple
pledge is better than an oath
Such precaution and such meas
ures for reprisal as are requisite
will suggest themselves as we pro-
ceed. Of course we must look fol
arrest, and security must be had
for the protection of families.
Should violent measures be re-
sorted to by the conservatives
would at once reply violently, ane
| | venture to say that the cities o.
the East would furnish the echoes
for our guns. So much for one
plan of annoying the enemy there
are thousands of others as there
are thousands of unjust laws tt
violate. All that is required i
the determination and endurance
and courage which belong to u
put in action and the few who arr
doomed to suffer and perhaps t
die, to suffer and to die content il
the knowledge that their bloot
shall not be spilled uselessly. and
that they will not be lonesome il
their graves. Yours for the work
w. T.. M.